Fernando Torres and his Spain teammates face the biggest match of their footballing careers as Spain or Holland aim to win their first World Cup on Sunday. One of the two finalists will become the eighth country to win the coveted trophy when the sides meet at the Soccer City in Johannesburg, kick-off at 20:30 hours (local time).

Spain qualified for the final after beating Germany 1-0 in the last four. The match was one of the side's best performances at the tournament, and it came against a team which had earlier seen off both England (4-1) and Argentina (4-0) in earlier rounds. The road to the final however has not been an easy one after the Red Fury slipped to defeat in their opening group game. The surprising loss to Switzerland meant that Spain needed to win their remaining two group games to guarantee qualification, a feat they achieved with wins against Honduras and Chile. Portugal and Paraguay followed, before a goal from Carles Puyol against Germany sent Spain into the final.

The Red Fury will be trying to become the first team to hold the World Cup and Euros since France achieved the feat 10 years ago. In 2008 Spain conquered the European Champions courtesy of a Fernando Torres strike in the final against Germany, and now two years on, Spain have the chance to do the 'double'. But lying between the 2008 Euro winners and World Cup glory is a Holland side who will be looking to win their first trophy after losing both the 1974 and 1978 finals.

Holland reached the 2010 World Cup with eight straight wins in their qualification in a group. The Dutch have maintained their impressive run of results in South Africa with six wins from six. The Orange topped Group E with maximum points before beating Slovakia, stunning title favourites Brazil in the last eight, and squeezing past Uruguay 3-2 in the semifinals.

The Dutch have only had to come back once from behind so far in South Africa. Holland were trailing Brazil 1-0 at half-time in their quarter-final clash before two second-half goals saw them through to the last four. Robinho had opened the scoring on 10 minutes after calmly placing the ball past Maarten Stekelenburg. Holland regrouped after the break as Felipe Melo scored an own goal before midfielder Sneijder headed home a flicked-on corner kick.

The Dutch manager Bert van Marwijk has a full strength side to choose from for the match verses Spain. Defender Joris Mathijsen is available again after a knee injury, and fellow defdender Gregory van der Wiel is back from suspension, as is midfielder Nigel de Jong.

Liverpool will have at least two World Cup winners come Sunday night as teammates Dirk Kuyt and Ryan Babel are part of the Dutch squad with Fernando Torres and Pepe Reina with the Spain team. Friendships will be put to one side for the 90 minutes as the two Dutch attackers will be aiming to fire Holland to their first World Cup, as the Spain and Liverpool number '9' will be vying to do the same for Spain, with Reina acting as cover for Iker Casillas. Although the Liverpool keeper has yet to play, it was his tip for Casillas which helped the Spain shotstoopper save Cardozo's penalty in their 1-0 win over Paraguay.

For Fernando it will be his fourth final for Spain. The striker won both the European Under 16s and Under 19s titles (Torres scoring the only goal in the 1-0 wins), and in 2008 the forward repeated the feat with his country's winner against Germany in Vienna in the 2008 European Championship final.

On Sunday the whole World will be watching as Torres and Spain set their sights on lifting the 2010 World Cup.